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The Museum’s Collections document the fate of Holocaust victims, survivors, rescuers, liberators, and others through artifacts, documents, photos, films, books, personal stories, and more. Search below to view digital records and find material that you can access at our library and at the Shapell Center.

Videotape testimony of Selene B., who was born in Białystok, Poland. She recalls German occupation; mass killings; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization; hiding with her family during round-ups; her brother's work as a photographer's assistant (he brought home pictures of the ghetto); her brother arranging for her and her mother to work at a furniture factory; hiding with her mother after the ghetto's liquidation; their arrest and deportation to Stutthof, then Birkenau; working with her mother in a bomb factory; attempting to sabotage the bomb fuses; a public hanging; transfer to Auschwitz; finding her aunt; the death march to Ravensbrück; transfer with her mother and aunt to Neustadt; and liberation by Soviet troops. Mrs. B. describes working for the Soviet army; traveling with her mother to Łódź; returning to Białystok; hearing from her father in the United States; learning her brother had survived; meeting her future husband on a train to Germany; joining her father in the United States; and attending high school. She recalls her nightmares after a trip with her husband to Białystok, Łódź, Birkenau and Auschwitz, and returning to Poland with her children so they could see it through her eyes.

Learn about over 1,000 camps and ghettos in Volume I and II of this encyclopedia, which are available as a free PDF download. This reference provides text, photographs, charts, maps, and extensive indexes.